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Can you handle the case of multiple targetNamespaces in your consolidated Schema Defnition file? Francis. Mark Feblowitz wrote: > > > Yes - > > You can consolidate an entire vocabulary of different doc types into a > single Schema Definition file. Very convenient for distribution of related > schema definitions. The down-sides have already been mentioned. > > Now, will we ever get to (or need to get to) a point where we can have an > instance file with multiple roots? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) > To: vdv@d...; xml-dev@l... > Sent: 6/21/01 9:45 AM > Subject: RE: Escher could have drawn it (Re: XML Schema and Entities) > > That would say under XML Schema, a document can > be rootless in the classical sense. It is more > like VRML, which having been designed from the > beginning to be object-oriented, has no document > root, simply a comment that must be included > at the head of the file. XML Schema in that > sense has been oriented toward object design. > > Is this the case, that by having multiple > global elements, we can design a schema > with multiple document roots, or perhaps > simply, multiple trees? > > Len > http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard > > Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. > Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...] > > > In such a case, you > > could deduce that <a> is the root element, even if it is not > explicitly > > marked as such. However, it may be the case that other elements, <x>, > > <y> and <z> could also be defined with the same content model as <a>, > > and therefore there are 4 possible root elements for a schema valid > > document. Is this the case? > > Yes, all you have to do is to define these 4 elements as global. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l...
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